Alice is pleased to present Joyriders and host its belated Aotearoa book launch at Skar Image Lab on June 7, 2025. Part of the Auckland Festival of Photography, the event includes a floor talk by Alice with the exhibition offering insights into the work’s evolution from pillion to page to wall. It is on view until June 26.

Joyriders is the culmination of Bristol-based photographer Alice Connew’s four year investigation of the women motorcycle riders of Petrolettes. Within what is commonly recognised as a traditionally male sport, these women have unapologetically carved out a space to call their own, defiantly declaring, “we ride too”. The women and their bikes move through landscapes that shift between post-industrial, iron graveyards to genteel cultural landmarks, each location harking back to patriarchal histories in which the women atop their bikes, careening down the roads, become vehicles of radical resistance.

Sat 7 June | 3pm | Skar Image Lab, 1 New Bond St, Kingsland